Rabies

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last from
two weeks to six months, and often the original wound will have healed and been
forgotten by the time symptoms begin to occur.

Symptoms in humans present themselves in one of two forms: ‘furious rabies', or ‘
dumb rabies'. The former is called such because of the severe nature and range
of the symptoms. The virus, upon reaching the CNS will present the person with
headache, fever, irritability, restlessness and anxiety. Progression may occur
on to muscle pains, excessive salivation, and vomiting. After a few days or up
to a week the person may go through a stage of excitement, and be afflicted with
painful muscle spasms which are sometimes set off by swallowing of saliva or
water. Because of this the afflicted will drool and learn to fear water, which
is why rabies in humans was sometimes called Hydrophobia. The patients are also
extremely sensitive to air or drafts blown on their face. The stage lasts only
fews days before the onset of a coma, then death. Dumb ...

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